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Re: Comments on ECC draft

David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> Mon, 23 September 2002 23:06 UTC

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From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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Subject: Re: Comments on ECC draft
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Len Sassaman wrote:
> 
> I'd like to bring this up again before the next revision of the draft. How
> close are we to consensus on the ECC semantics?
> 
> OpenSSL now has ECC in it, and there is an ECC in TLS draft being proposed
> in the IETF. It is worth nailing this down, I think.

I'm not against ECC in OpenPGP, but given how close 2440bis is to last
call, perhaps the ECC specification could go in a companion RFC?

David

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